emerald mine

ELON Musk’s dad Errol claims he bankrolled his billionaire son’s escape from South Africa to America with emeralds from an “under the table” mine in Zambia. … Elon Musk’s father, Errol, has opened up about the emerald business that he claims helped pave the way for his billionaire son to become successful … Last week, the tech billionaire offered a million Dogecoin (almost $93,000) to anyone who could prove the existence of the mine … He has previously slammed the claim, saying: “The fake emerald mine thing is so annoying. Like where exactly is this thing anyway!?” … “Elon knows it’s true. All the kids know about it. My daughter has three or four emerald pendants. Elon saw them (the emeralds) at our house. He knew I was selling them.” —Elon Musk’s dad Errol says he can ‘prove’ existence of emerald mine in new bombshell claim revealing its location, The Sun US, by Alex Diaz, 19 Apr 2023

Elon’s claims appear contradictory to what he said in a since-deleted interview with Forbes in July 2014 … “This is going to sound slightly crazy, but my father also had a share in an Emerald mine in Zambia,” he told the publication at the time, according to Snopes. … “I was 15 and really wanted to go with him but didn’t realize how dangerous it was.” … Elon added: “I couldn’t find my passport, so I ended up grabbing my brother’s - which turned out to be six months overdue.ּ … “So, we had this planeload of contraband and an overdue passport from another person.” … “There were AK-47s all over the place and I’m thinking: ‘Man, this could really go bad,’” he continued. … [changing from ELon Musk comments to Errol Musk comments] … “There was no mining company. There are no signed agreements or financial statements,” Errol told The U.S. Sun. … “No one owned anything. The deal was done on a handshake with the Italian man at a time when Zambia was a free for all.” … Elon’s father claimed that he ultimately used the proceeds from the emeralds to support Elon and his brother Kimbal on a path to the United States. … Errol said: “In the late 1980s, Elon was doing a business degree at the University of Pretoria” … “And suddenly, it came to me out of the blue to ask him, ‘Would you like to go and study in the United States?’” Errol told The U.S. Sun. … “He looked up at me, his face beaming and exclaimed, ‘Yes!’” … “Ten days later, Elon left South Africa with a return ticket for a year for America with emerald money in his pocket,” he continued. … However, Elon has publicly denied his father's story of giving himself and Kimbal emeralds for cash in college. … “He didn’t own an emerald mine & I worked my way through college, ending up ~$100k in student debt,” Elon wrote in a tweet from December 2019. … [At the time, the tuition for Queen's University at Kingston was under $4,000 a year and the tuition to University of Pennsylvania was slightly more than $13,000 a year, with two years at each school, for a total fo around $34,000] … “I couldn’t even afford a 2nd PC at Zip2, so programmed at night & website only worked during day. Where is this bs coming from?” … Errol has held onto his claims of the emerald mine’s validity and his use of it to assist Elon and his brother. … The 77-year-old said he suspects Elon is adamantly against his father’s claims because he doesn’t want to appear as a “trust fund kid.” … “Elon’s main concern is not to appear to be a ‘trust fund kid’ who got everything given to him on a plate,” Errol explained to The U.S. Sun. —Bringing in the Green, The Sun US, by Jacob Willeford and Alex Diaz, 20 Apr 2023

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